Research Outputs (College of Law)http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4252016-12-09T15:28:53Z2016-12-09T15:28:53ZBakhoele Bafokeng ba 'Mantsukunyane oa Kata-SefiriMahao, Nqosa Leutahttp://hdl.handle.net/10500/88922015-10-13T11:12:44Z2011-01-01T00:00:00ZBakhoele Bafokeng ba 'Mantsukunyane oa Kata-Sefiri
Mahao, Nqosa Leuta
2011-01-01T00:00:00ZO se re ho morwa 'morwa towe!' African jurisprudence exhumedMahao, Nqosa L.http://hdl.handle.net/10500/47382015-10-13T11:12:24Z2010-11-01T00:00:00ZO se re ho morwa 'morwa towe!' African jurisprudence exhumed
Mahao, Nqosa L.
The article is an intervention in the discourse around African jurisprudence and its relevance to contemporary post-colonial African society. It repudiates suggestions that African jurisprudence (botho/ubuntu) is unenlightened and inconsistent with the progressive values undergirding the South African Constitution. Drawing lessons largely from the pre-colonial 18th century history of the Basotho kingdom, the article explores how popular participation in that system was a leitmotif of democratic accountability. It lays bare a number of doctrines that abetted the efficacy, effectiveness and accountability of the political system. African jurisprudence also practised human dignity in a way that pulled into harmony formal and substantive justice. It contends that in African jurisprudence human dignity was indivisible. Political and civil freedoms were not separable from socio-economic rights. Finally, the article reviews how the doctrine 'O se re ho Morwa: 'morwa towe!' not only ensured respect and dignity of every citizen, but was also the anchor of social cohesion and harmony in a multi-cultural society.
2010-11-01T00:00:00ZOmbudsman and the enhancement of good governance in LesothoMahao, N.L.http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4482015-10-13T11:11:31Z1997-01-01T00:00:00ZOmbudsman and the enhancement of good governance in Lesotho
Mahao, N.L.
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1997-01-01T00:00:00ZColonial rule and the transformation of chieftaincy in Southern Africa : a case study on LesothoMahao, N.L.http://hdl.handle.net/10500/4472015-10-13T11:12:04Z2007-01-01T00:00:00ZColonial rule and the transformation of chieftaincy in Southern Africa : a case study on Lesotho
Mahao, N.L.
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2007-01-01T00:00:00Z